Vehicle-wheel.



T. E.- MURRAY.

VEHICLE WHEEL. APPLICATION mm NOV. 1, 1917.

1,270,047. I Patented J une 18, 191% THOMAS E. MURRAY, OF NEW YORK, N.Y. I

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

To all whom/it may concern ,Be it known'that I,Tr1oMAs E. MURRAY,

I citizen, of the United States, residing at New York, in the countyState of- New York, have invented a certain Wheels,'o f which thecation."

of New' York and new and useful Improvement in Vehiclefollowing is aspecifia The inyention relates to vehicle wheels, "and consists in theconstruction of thespoke sockets more I particularly hereinafter set Istamped, pressed or struck forth, and the combination of stay? piecestherewith.

In the accompanying drawings-f- Figure 1 is anelevation showing portionof the rim, and to spoke ends of a wheel. Fig. 2 is a section on theline at, m and Fig. 3 is a section on the liney, y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4shows in section, also on line a w, a modified formofmysocket. M

Similar numbers of reference indicate like parts.

1 is the Wheel rim. At 2, 2, 2 are shown three spokes. Each socket isformed of twoprecisely similar half sections, preferably up. from sheetmetal. Each half section has integrally a semi-circular middle portion3, and on each side of said middle portion flat w ng por- -tions .4.Said wing portions ma" be each formed with' aflat portion and a ang'e 5,so

that when placed together with their con-' cavities opposite to oneanother, 85

and the flange edges in contact, a chamber will be formed between saidwing portions, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3;-or.said wing portions may besimply solid projections, as shown in Fig.

4, in which case the opposing faces of said pro ections Wlll be incontact. The meeting edges of flanges 5 are to be electrically weldedtog the opposing faces of wing portions la're to be welded together onthe line 7 as shown in 4. In eithercas'e a circular tube is formed bythe said semi-circular portions 3, in which the end of the spoke isseated.

-The completed sockets are to be electrically three of .posed withcircular. middle portion,

' ends between.

sockets. ether as shown in Fig. '3 at6, or

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 11119 18, 1918 Applicationflled November 1, 1917. Serial No. 199,779.

Welded attheir outer edges to the inner sur face of the Wheel rim, as'shownnt 8.

The ob ect of making the sockets with chambers'between thewing portionsis to permit of the ends of stay pieces 9 being metal, each half sectioncomprising a' semicircular middle portion, and wing portions on eachside of and integral with said middleportion, the said halfsectionsbeing disposite one another, and having their respective wing portionselectrically welded to gether, and the said socket being electricallywelded at a longitudinal edge to said rim.

. 2. A metal vehicle wheel," comprising a metal rim and a spoke socket,the said socket being formed of two half sections of sheet metal, eachhalf section comprising a semiand wing portions on each side of andintegral with said midtheir respective concavities op-' dieportion,-each of saidwing portions hav- 4 the sa'id'half sections beingdisposed with their respective concavities opposite one another, andhaving the edges of the flanges of their wing" portions elecing aflange,

'trically welded together, and the saidsocket being electrically weldedat a longitudinal edge to said rim. i

3. In combination with a wheel rim, two. sockets as in claim 2,electrically welded at their longitudinal edges to the inner surface ofsaid rim, and a stay piece entering at its the" wing"portions of said Intestimony whereofI have affixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

, g TH'oMA's E. MURRAY.

Witnessesi Gnnrnonn T. PORTER, MAY Tl MCGA'RRY.

